Name
Walter Turvey
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/10/1915
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
M1/07176
Army Service Corps
335th Mechanical Transport Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY
I. E. 143.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
St Lawrence Church Memorial, Bovingdon, Memorial Plaque, Memorial Hall, Bovingdon, Luton War Memorial, Beds
Pre War
Walter Turvey was born in 1884 in Totternhoe, Bedfordshire son of James and Susanna Turvey and one of four children, although two died in childhood.
On the 1891 Census the family were living in Village Road, Totternhoe, where his father was a general labourer. They had moved to 12 Oxford Street, Wednesbury, Staffordshire by 1901. His father was then working as a Railway Goods Checker and Walter was working as a Fishmonger.
He married Maud Helena Meredith on 19 October 1904 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales at which time he was working as a coachman and living at 5 Bryn Issa Terrace. They had three children, Hilda, Walter and Guy and were living in Rose Cottage, Hempstead Lane, Bovingdon, Herts on the 1911 Census. Their first two children were born in Lancashire (the eldest being baptised in Liverpool) and the youngest, Guy, had been born in Bovingdon. Walter was then working as a Coachman (Domestic).
They later lived at 43 Adelaide Street, Luton, Beds.
Wartime Service
Walter enlisted at London and served in France from 28 October 1914 with the Army Service Corps. He was appointed to the 335th Mechanical Transport Company, which was formed in March 1915 as an Ammunition Column for the 14th Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery.
He died of gunshot wounds at No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station which was situated at Chocques at the time he died, aged 31, and is buried in Choques Military Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £15 0s 9d. She also received a pension of £1 0s 6d a week for herself and her children.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox, Dick West
